With over forty years of experience, William H. Draper III is one of
the West Coast�s first venture capitalists. He is General Partner of
Draper Richards L.P., a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage
technology companies in the U.S., and Draper International, a venture
capital fund investing in private companies with operations in the U.S.
and India. Mr. Draper was founder of Sutter Hill Ventures in Palo Alto,
California. During his twenty...
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With over forty years of experience, William H. Draper III is one of
the West Coast�s first venture capitalists. He is General Partner of
Draper Richards L.P., a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage
technology companies in the U.S., and Draper International, a venture
capital fund investing in private companies with operations in the U.S.
and India. Mr. Draper was founder of Sutter Hill Ventures in Palo Alto,
California. During his twenty years as the senior partner of Sutter
Hill, he helped to organize and finance several hundred high technology
manufacturing companies. Mr. Draper served from 1981 to 1986 as
President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
In 1986, he became the head of the world's largest source of
multilateral development grant assistance, the United Nations
Development Program. In addition to serving on many corporate boards of
directors, Mr. Draper has served on the boards of the Atlantic Council,
Draper Richards Foundation, Hoover Institution, Institute of
International Studies at Stanford University, World Affairs Council of
Northern California and the United Nations Association-USA. Mr. Draper
formerly served as the Chairman of the World Affairs Council of
Northern California, Chairman of the Institute of International
Education, as a Trustee of Yale University and as Chairman of the Board
of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco; he was a former
Board member of Population Action International, George Bush Library
Foundation, the Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate School of
Business, and the World Rehabilitation Fund in New York. He is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations and the President's Council on
International Activities at Yale University. In 2005, he received the
Vision Award from SD Forum and was inducted into the Dow Jones Venture
Capital Hall of Fame. In 2006, he received the Silicon Valley Fast 50
Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Service Award from
the Institute of International Education. Mr. Draper has a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Yale University, and a Master of Business degree, with
distinction, from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.
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